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Hello!American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs -- the film I attended the Producers Workshop with back in (gulp) 2011 is finally having its national broadcast on POV on June 30. Hope…Continue

Hello, I'm looking for high quality, preferably HD footage of the Occupy Wall Street or other Occupy movements. If you know anybody currently filming or have any leads, please get in touch. Thank…Continue

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I’m very excited to share that Off the Menu: Asian America, a new documentary I produced and directed premieres nationally on PBS next Tuesday Dec. 8. Please check your local TV listings for exact airdates.

Thanks to all of you who have been supportive of this project over the past year. It’s been an incredible experience both filming and sharing the film with audiences around the country who have wholeheartedly embraced the breadth and complexity of…

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Sorry for the delay Grace as I've been on the road a lot (and still am) but definitely nice to meet you. Cool on your new project. It sounds pretty interesting and would love to hear more. Maybe grab a beer next time I hit LA.

As to a music supervisor, I've usually handled a lot of the music for our various films, as when you are doing it low budget DIY it's usually the only way.

With that said, I am familiar and friends with a music supervisor here in SF. Her name is Brooke Wentz (bmw@rightsworkshop.com) and she runs the companyhttp://www.rightsworkshop.com/. She's just a really good person, great to work with, and has done a lot of indie docs. After we took care of a lot of stuff with Universal (with the band and management's help) we did bring her onto the Fishbone doc to clear some stuff with Sony as she had a good relationship with them and helped get it all worked out in an affordable way. But yeah, she is well connected and good people so probably at least chatting with her and let her know I recommended you all to her.

Also, offhand, one thing I would say to look into when you talk to her, but also just general research is to just try to avoid any classic songs from Detroit, as they are going to be expensive, probably no getting around it no matter how worthy the subject.

There have been so many indie labels in Detroit for decades I think you can find some lost songs that many people haven't heard, but have the sound and style of the times and likely these songs will be cheap and maybe a lot are in the public domain.

I can't think of someone to recommend there right offhand, but someone must have put some compilations together. This is the sort of stuff Brooke can do, as she has the contacts and if you let her know you are looking for songs from the era, but not the hits, then she can probably find them.